Barack Obama predicts some deja vu when the dust settles on the new deal between Iran and the US. In an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, the former president said any deal that emerges is unlikely to be much different from the 2015 nuclear accord his administration negotiated, known as...
Barack Obama predicts some deja vu when the dust settles on the new deal between Iran and the US. In an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, the former president said any deal that emerges is unlikely to be much different from the 2015 nuclear accord his administration negotiated, known as the JCPOA—an agreement Trump quit in 2018 and has long castigated as a "horrible deal," reports ABC News . "It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different, or in a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place, and had worked for a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it," Obama said in a Good Morning America interview set to air Wednesday, per the Hill . See the preview clip here . Still, Obama says he is "hopeful that (the) bombing stops and ordinary people are no longer suffering as a consequence of the war." Over the weekend, President Trump announced a peace deal with Iran, though one that kicks negotiations over any restrictions on Tehran's nuclear program to a second round of talks. In his interview, Obama also took a dig at Trump's decision to resort to war in the first place. "It's a reminder that on a lot of difficult foreign policy problems, the notion that we can just bully our way or bomb our way to solutions" is appealing but misguided, he said. "You'd think we would've learned that lesson by now, but it seems like every so often we have to relearn that lesson again."
